second wind

second wind
1) спорт. второе дыхание

We climbed with labored breathing for half an hour, but then got our second wind and went up more easily. (DAI) — Когда мы поднимались на гору, первые полчаса дышать было трудно, но потом пришло второе дыхание, и подъем стал значительно легче.

2) "второе дыхание", новый прилив энергии

When he was bursar, people had been more frightened of him than ever. After he retired it seemed for a time that the old sting had left him. But now at eighty, with the curious second wind that I had seen before in very old men, he could produce it again, far more vigorously than ten years before. (C. P. Snow, ‘The Affair’, ch. 2) — Особенно страшен Уинслоу был в должности казначея колледжа. Многие его побаивались. Выйдя в отставку, он на некоторое время утратил, казалось, свое былое ехидство. Но сейчас, на девятом десятке, у него словно открылось "второе дыхание" - явление, которое мне и раньше приходилось наблюдать у очень старых людей, - и теперь он стал куда язвительнее, чем был, скажем, десять лет тому назад.

Tom became very tired of working at his algebra, but after a while he got his second wind and began to enjoy it. (DAI) — Том долго сидел над алгеброй и очень устал, но тут у него как бы открылось "второе дыхание", он даже стал заниматься с удовольствием.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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